Author: sumithra
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Louhi 2014: Special Issue on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis now published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
We are happy to announce the publication of the Louhi 2014 Special Issue on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis, published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, Volume 15, Supplement 2: http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcmedinformdecismak/supplements/15/S2 This special issue is edited by myself, Martin Duneld, Aron Henriksson, Maria Kvist, Maria Skeppstedt and Hercules Dalianis, and features five new contributions following…
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Louhi 2014: The Fifth International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis
The Clinical Text Mining group at DSV organised the 5th Louhi workshop in conjunction with EACL on a beautiful sunny day (April 27) in Gothenburg. The program consisted of an invited talk by Prof. Sophia Ananiadou from NacTem in Manchester, nine long paper presentations and a poster session. The workshop proceedings can be found here: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W14/#1100 Thank you…
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Two research visits – New York and Boston
Sumithra Velupillai traveled to the northeastern US coast on February 18-21 for two research visits. In New York, she visited Noemie Elhadad and her group at the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, and in Boston, she visited Guergana Savova and her group at the Natural Language Processing Lab, Childrens Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School.…
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CLEFeHealth and CLEF 2013
Sumithra Velupillai attended the CLEF eHealth lab organized at the CLEF conference in Valencia, 23 – 26 September 2013. The CLEF conference “promotes the systematic evaluation of information access systems, primarily through experimentation on shared tasks”. This year, there were nine labs with different specific information access problems. Sumithra was one of the co-organizers of the CLEFeHealth lab together…
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Two posters at CLEF eHealth, Rome, 17-20 September 2012
Mattias Kanhov and Sumithra Velupillai attended and presented two posters at the CLEF eHealth workshop organized at the CLEF conference in Rome, 17 – 20 September 2012. Mattias presented work about his and his fellow student Xuefeng Feng’s master theses, supervised by prof. Hercules Dalianis, in the poster Natural Language Generation from SNOMED Specifications. Sumithra presented…
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Clinical NLP workshop, June 21st 2012
On June 21st, 2012, we organized a one-day Clinical NLP workshop here at DSV with participants from the Interlock and HEXAnord projects. We had visitors from the US, Australia, Norway, Lithunia, Gothenburg as well as some participants from DSV. The talks were about ongoing research on Clinical NLP in the different research groups. It was…
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Presentation in Oslo, May 30th
I was invited to give a talk in a seminar series held at the Language Technology Group (LTG), Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, on May 30th. The talk was entitled Shades of Certainty — Working with Swedish Medical Records and the Stockholm EPR Corpus and was about my recent dissertation work as well as…
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13th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics
Sumithra Velupillai attended the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing 2012) at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India, March 11-17. At CICLing 2012, Sumithra presented the paper Fine–grained Certainty Level Annotations Used for Coarser-grained E-health Scenarios — Certainty Classification of Diagnostic Statements in Swedish Clinical Text, co-written…